Pressure is growing on a pivotal IMO subcommittee meeting next week to conclude technical work on key issues in time for shipowners to prepare for the emissions regulation's start date of 1 January 2020.
Topics to be discussed range from port state control (PSC) guidance to exhaust gas cleaning system standards.
Although final decisions on IMO 2020 implementation issues will take place at a Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) in May, it will be at next week’s Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR) subcommittee where the technical groundwork must be finalised.
